Recruiter's Essential Tips

The Internet is one of the major hunting grounds to source resumes and build a candidate resume database. Social networking sites, professional networking sites, blogs, personal websites, forums, etc. are some of the sources where you can find candidates. Surveys reveal that recruiters spend a great deal of time to source and import resumes. This is where recruiters who are well-versed with complex boolean search scripts stand out from the crowd. Boolean search is a great way of sourcing candidates from various Internet sources but you need to know the intricacies of it. You need to write complex resume search scripts for every job profile and it is really a tedious task even for the experienced recruiters, particularly when you have to find candidates from different locations, skill sets, experience levels, education, etc. This is where a resume import tool like ResumeGrabber Suite can help you to instantly source & import qualified resumes and build a resume database. ...

A resume database is one of the most primary and powerful tools that recruiters or hiring managers should always have in their kitty. It is a consolidated list of qualified candidates or some times prescreened candidates that recruiters and hiring managers can quickly reach out during various recruiting assignments. There are some steps involved in building a resume database. The first step is to identify the targeted audience and search resumes. Typically recruiters search for resumes from various sources like job boards, search engines, professional networking sites, social networking sites, forums, personal websites, blogs, user groups, resume portals, etc. A simple resume search, for example in Google, will fetch you resumes along with a lot of other unwanted data. You have to manually filter the resumes from the search results. Expert recruiters use Boolean search scripts to eliminate the unwanted data and narrow down the search results to appropriate resumes. So you need to...